First edition | |
Author | Willa Cather |
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Language | English |
Genre | Historical Fiction |
Publisher | Alfred A. Knopf |
Publication date | 1922 |
Publication place | United States |
Media type | Hardcover |
Pages | 459 |
OCLC | 280665 |
813/.52 22 | |
LC Class | PS3505.A87 O5 2006 |
Text | One of Ours at Wikisource |
One of Ours is a 1922 novel by Willa Cather that won the 1923 Pulitzer Prize for the Novel. It tells the story of the life of Claude Wheeler, a Nebraska native in the first decades of the 20th century. The son of a successful farmer and an intensely pious mother, he is guaranteed a comfortable livelihood. Nevertheless, Wheeler views himself as a victim of his father's success and his own inexplicable malaise.